Creative exploration of how the encounter between Confucianism and western (neo)liberalism necessarily leads to the unlearning of both.

Chih-yu Shih is Visiting Chair Professor of Tongji University and Professor Emeritus of National Taiwan University. He is the author of Post-Chineseness: Cultural Politics and International Relations, also published by SUNY Press.

Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Translating Confucianism as a Pluriversal Engagement
Part One. Cosmology: Denationalizing Tianxia
1. De-Sinicizing Tianxia: The Invisible Hand of International Relations
2. Rivalry in Tianxia: Hegemony as Role Relations
Part Two. Relation: Practicing Confucian IR
3. Role and Relation in Confucian IR: Relating to Strangers in the States of Nature
4. Performing Anger: The Ethics of Foreign Policy Role Emotion
5. Patience with Nonsolutions: Emotion and Trust in Role Creation
6. Corrupting Friendship: Distance Sensibilities in International Gift Giving
7. Doomed to Expand: Exception and Exceptionalism as the Mechanisms of Relating
Part Three. Identity: (De)securitizing Chineseness
8. Western Belonging Aborted: The Ideological Background of the US-China Rivalry
9. Neither Balance nor Deterrence: Relational Security across the Taiwan Strait
10. Building Post-Western Regionalism: Moral Superiority or Post-Tianxia?
11. Experimenting with Twin Sovereignty: Implications for the Security Community
Conclusion: Unlearning Chinese Relational IR
Notes
Index